创业型领导对新创企业绩效影响的中介机制研究——组织学习能力与战略柔性的多重中介效应分析

Entrepreneurial Leadership and Performance of New Ventures——the Multiple Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Ability and Strategic Flexibility

组织学习能力、战略柔性是新创企业在复杂多变的外部环境中获取竞争优势的重要能力,而创业型领导是新创企业持续获取竞争优势与战略价值的重要驱动因素,对于新创企业获得良好的绩效有重要的促进作用。基于高阶理论与战略创业理论,通过对213个新创企业的样本数据分析,可知组织学习能力、战略柔性在CEO的创业型领导影响新创企业绩效过程中的多重中介作用:CEO的创业型领导对新创企业的组织学习能力与战略柔性均有显著的正向影响;组织学习能力、战略柔性在CEO的创业型领导与新创企业绩效的关系中有完全中介的作用;通过多重中介效应的比较,在创业型领导与新创企业绩效的关系中,组织学习能力与战略柔性所发挥的中介作用在影响程度方面没有显著性的差异。

Organizational learning and strategic flexibility are important abilities of new ventures to obtain competitive advantages in the complex and ever-changing external environment,and entrepreneurial leader-ship,which has an important role in enhancing the performance of new ventures,is a key driver for new setupsto maintain their competitive advantage and strategic values. This paper studies the multiple mediating ef-fects of organizational learning ability and strategic flexibility between entrepreneurial leadership of CEOs and the performance new ventures based on strategic entrepreneurship and upper echelons theories. The empirical analysis of the sample data of 213 new venturesshows that entrepreneurial leadership of CEOs has a significant positive impact on both organizational learning ability and strategic flexibility of new ventures;the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and new ventures’performance is completely mediated by organizational learning ability and strategic flexibility;and the difference between the mediating effects of organizational learning ability and strategic flexibility is not significant. The conclusions of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the influence mechanism of entrepreneurial leadership on the performance of new ventures